Seems like this distro is getting a lot of traction recently. Has anyone tried it? Is it any good?

  • TiresomeOuting
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    2 years ago

    What makes it more powerful than something like apt?

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      2 years ago

      Each package creates a new generation of your operating system. One of the heaviest pains in using a rolling distro is that one day some core part of your system comes crashing down. You can roll back to previous version on a whim.

      Each user has it’s own manager, so you can have multiple versions of a same library. It is not containerized software (docker), so you do get those native speeds. Biggest problem is the disk space use, since unless no one uses a package, you can’t garbage collect it.

      Other beauty is since the installation is based on a config file it’s trivial to have the full setup on multiple devices. (Much easier than hand rolled installation shell script)